ZWEIBRUCICEN, tsyrbrok-tsrt (Latin, Botosstiaws; French, Dnur-Posots. • Two Bridges*), Germany, a town in the Rhine Palatinate, on the Schwarzbach River, 54 miles southwest of Mannheim. It was the capital of the mediaeval Duchy of Zvreibriichen, until the end of the 18th century. It is well built and has Protestant and Roman Catholic churches and a synagogue; umnasium, a rtalschule and several other schools: courts and public offices occupying the former ducal palace; an orphan age and hospitals; manufactories of silk plush, machinery, chicory, tacks, chains, leather, etc., and a trade in corn and cattle. The edition of the classics known by the name of was published here in 1779 and subsequent years. Pop. about 15250.
Basnael Marinas, American missionary: b. 12 Aug. 1867 at Vriesland, Mick He graduated at Hope College, Holland, Mich., A.B. 189; B.D., New Brunswick Theological -Seminary- 1890. He was ordained a monster
of the Reformed Church in America 1890, and became a missionary at Busrah, Bahrein and other stations in Ara • 1891-1905, afterward re. sidiag in Cairo, Egypt. He was the organizer and chairman of the Mohammedan Missionary Conference, Cairo, 1906, and has traveled exten sively in Moslem lands. He is the author of 'Arabia the Cradle of Islam' (1892) ; Tarry Land' (1902); 'Raymond Lull' (1904); 'Moslem Doctrine of God' (1906); 'Islam, a Challenge to ith' (1907) 'The Moslem World' (1907); Fa 'The Moslem Christ' (1911); 'The Unoccupied Mission Fields' (1910); 'Zig zag Journeys in the Camel Country' (1912): 'Childhood in the Moslem World' (1915); tMo hammed or Christ' (1915); 'Life of William Borden' (1916) - 'The Disintegration of Islam' (1917). He is editor of The Moslems World, a quarterly review, New York.